Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story backfires, nearly doubles the article’s shares
Yet despite those herculean efforts to suppress the Hunter Biden story, Twitter only managed to raise the report's profile. Zignal Labs found that Twitter's censorship increased the share count on the Post's story from 5,500 shares per quarter-hour to 10,000.
"The poorly-thought-through ban triggered the so-called Streisand Effect and helped turn a sketchy article into a must-share blockbuster," said Abby Ohlheiser of MIT Technology Review.